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...show is about to sign up Charlie Rose, the PBS talk-show host, to do 10 or 12 pieces a year. Rose will continue as host on his own show, though he will give up some producing chores so that he can devote more time to his new gig. The network has coaxed Evening News anchor Dan Rather to be an occasional contributor as well (he will continue to anchor both the Evening News and the weekly 48 Hours). CBS has also pursued ABC's Chris Wallace, son of 60 Minutes pioneer Mike, though it now appears unlikely that...
...there's nothing available at the White House, what about that poet laureate gig? "Starbucks Santa Monica coffee cup purchased at the Los Angeles International Airport and given to President on December 6, 1997; President remarked, 'I like big mugs' and Lewinsky responded, 'No, you like big jugs.'" --OIC interview
Rudenstine says graduate schools will soon have to choose between their bread and butter students and a new gig that looks more like consulting than teaching...
...self-doubt. She's the first woman to be admitted into what is generally considered Y-chromosome ground zero: Monday Night Football. Not bad for a reporter who once had a footballer sign her notebook, assuming she was a fan. And who was told she got her first TV gig because she had the experience and was "cosmetically correct." (Did Marv Albert sit that test?) "I try to make every at bat a quality at bat," Visser says. Can't imagine Ally saying that...
...Spearing at Setauket, 1845. It is a painting not of Mount's own childhood memory but of someone else's. A New York attorney named Strong commissioned it from him; the little boy in the back of the boat is Strong, and the imposing black woman wielding her eel gig in the bow was his father's servant, Rachel Hart. With its strong diagonals of paddle and spear shaft, and the magical stillness of the water in which the figures, the landscape and the boat are doubled, this is the most resolved picture of Mount's career. Though Winslow Homer...